| An Altmetric Analysis of Scholarly Publications from Earth and Planetary Science Discipline: An Exploratory Study of Indian Publications |
| Amit Nath, Sibsankar Jana University of Kalyani Nadia-741235 India |
| Abstract: Since the inception of social media, entire human society has dramatically changed. Nowadays, social media has become an essential component of human society. Researchers or academicians are no exceptions. Social media has opened up new possibilities for researchers and academicians to evaluate scientific research based on social media data. In this response, altmetric is introduced as an emerging research area in scientometrics, where social media data is applied as source data for the evaluation of scientific research. The sufficient presence of altmetric data across scholarly publications is a prerequisite for developing new metrics in practice. This article aimed to investigate the presence of altmetric data in Indian scholarly publications compared to the world data. It has also explored the relationship among altmetric events (individual or aggregated) with citation scores. The result indicates that around 32.70% of Indian EPS articles are covered in social media, while 35.75% of research articles present at least one altmetric event for world data. The presence of altmetric events is still meager, except for Mendeley. A strong positive correlation is observed between citations and readership in Mendeley. |
| Keywords: Social Media Metrics, Altmetrics, Earth and Planetary Science, Altmetric Data Coverage Co-relational Analysis, Altmetric Presence, Social Media Attention An Altmetric Analysis of Scholarly Publications from Earth and Planetary Science Discipline: An Exploratory Study of Indian Publications |
| DOI:https://doi.org/10.6025/stm/2022/3/3/80-87 |
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